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Recho Kosgei, whose video went viral after she collapsed just 800m to the finish line in Sunday's Warsaw Marathon in Poland, arrived in the country on Tuesday and said she was fine and ready to resume training for the next race. Kosgei said she was cleared by Polish medics to travel back after receiving treatment at a hospital in Warsaw.
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Chaos erupted in Uganda Parliament on Tuesday shortly after Speaker Rebecca Kadaga said the Order Paper had been amended to include the controversial Raphael Magyezi’s motion to amend the age limit cap on presidential candidates. A section of opposition members alleged that one of the legislators had entered the House with a gun sparking protests as MPs exchanged

Eleven of 17 students were on hand for Saturday’s Parent University-Effingham graduation ceremony at Effingham Middle School. SPRINGFIELD — Parent University-Effingham reached a milestone on Saturday by graduating its fifth class at Effingham Middle School.
The mission of Parent University-Effingham is to educate, empower and inspire parents to meet the needs

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police used tear gas and batons on Tuesday to disperse protesters who say election officials should be sacked before the re-run of a presidential vote because they favour President Uhuru Kenyatta. Several volleys of tear gas were fired near the election commission headquarters in central Nairobi, a Reuters witness said. When protestors

Four people died after a vehicle they were travelling in hit a pothole and rolled at South Horr in Samburu North. Four other people were injured and were taken to the Samburu County Referral Hospital.
According to Dr Boniface Atandi, a medic at the county referral hospital said one of the victims died at the hospital.
"We received five patients from the accident

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has denied claims that he had planned to disrupt National Super Alliance’s anti-IEBC demos. The demos were staged on Tuesday to to force out electoral commission officials the opposition has accused of bungling August 8 presidential election.
Nasa MPs, led by Orange Democratic Movement chairman John Mbadi, claimed Mr Kuria

Embakasi East MP Paul Ongili, popularly known as Babu Owino, has been charged with two counts of subversion and uttering abusive words against President Uhuru Kenyatta. During the court session in Nairobi the prosecution requested the court to deny him bail.
Prosecutor Nicholas Mutuku said the legislator has four previous charges of similar nature

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has vowed to end military confrontations between government forces and rebels across the country. In a speech aired by state-owned television, President Kiir admitted that he was well informed about the torment people were undergoing in South Sudan.
He also acknowledged that dialogue was the best option to ending the South

Reggae musician, Abubakar Ahmed, known in Ghanaian showbiz circles as Blakk Rasta, is disappointed Ghana has not legalised marijuana known locally as ‘wee’. According to him, Ghana’s collapsed economy can be revived through the foreign exchange we can generate from exporting wee.
In an interview with host KMJ on ‘Daybreak Hitz’ on Hitz FM, Blakk Rasta

US Ambassador Nikki Haley said Tuesday she will tell South Sudan's leaders when she visits Juba next month to seize a final chance for peace and quickly revive a political deal to end the three-year war. President Donald Trump last week announced that Haley, his high-profile ambassador to the United Nations, would travel to South Sudan and to the region